bout de papier, Volume 7, Issue No. 3, 1990
Paris Then and Now
NOTE DE LA RÉDACTION : Paris, à chaque visite, nous semble immuable: ses immeubles de pierre haussmaniens, ses grands boulevards, sa tour Eiffel trônant fièrement depuis plus de 100 ans en son centre… Cependant, c’est à la lecture de textes comme celui…
Letter to the Editor
I refer to the John Watkins letter to John Holmes that was published in your Vol. 23, No. 3, where you indicate that there was an addition on the left margin referring to a lunch “at the Gardens (Gordons?).” I am not…
From One “Fantaisiste” to Another
John Benjamin Clark Watkins was born in Norval Station, Ontario, in 1902. He had specialized in Scandinavian studies at the University of Toronto and at Cornell University, from which he received his doctorate in 1944 (after working for more than a decade…
Words Not Deeds
Nearly a decade after the “war to end all wars” statesmen gathered in Paris to sign the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War, more commonly known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact in honour of its principal sponsors, American Secretary of State Frank…
Cockroaches and Caviar
by Mary Taylor
Émile Martel
Notre collègue Émile Martel, actuellement Ministre responsable des Affaires culturelles à Paris, est aussi poète et vient de se mériter le Prix du Gouverneur général dans la catégorie poésie de langue française pour Pour orchestre et poète seul, publié aux Écrits des…
Apartment Hunting in Paris — A Liberal Education — Part II
During his long and truly distinguished career in External Affairs, Charles Ritchie held such top posts abroad as Ambassador to the United States, High Commissioner in London, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Permanent Representative…
Lettre de Paris
Une absence de quelques années de la capitale française accorde suffisamment de recul à l’observateur pour mesurer les changements qui se sont imposés à la France comme partenaire de la Communauté européenne, comme puissance située au carrefour de l’Est et l’Ouest et…
Apartment Hunting in Paris — A Liberal Education
The editors of bout have scored a fine coup in securing for publication this personal letter written in February 1947 from Paris by Charles Ritchie to the then Under-Secretary Mike Pearson, relating his incredibly humorous vicissitudes in finding lodging in the early…
